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- Dictionarybenighted/bɪˈnʌɪtɪd/
adjective
- 1. in a state of pitiful or contemptible intellectual or moral ignorance: "they saw themselves as bringers of culture to poor benighted peoples"
- 2. overtaken by darkness: "a storm developed and we were forced to wait benighted near the summit"
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The meaning of BENIGHTED is overtaken by darkness or night. How to use benighted in a sentence. overtaken by darkness or night; existing in a state of intellectual, moral, or social darkness : unenlightened…
: having no knowledge or education. These benighted [= ignorant, unenlightened] souls/people have so much to learn. a strange, benighted country. BENIGHTED meaning: having no knowledge or education.
in a way that shows no knowledge or morals: It was felt that more people were benightedly outraged by the disruption caused by the protesters than by the injustice that they were protesting. Settlers benightedly regarded the native people as savages and sought to conquer them for their land and resources.
How to pronounce benighted adjective in American English. (English pronunciations of benighted from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus and from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary, both sources © Cambridge University Press) What is the definition of benighted?
Definitions of BENIGHT. To involve in darkness; to shroud with the shades of night; to obscure. To overtake with night or darkness, especially before the end of a day's journey or task. To involve in moral darkness, or ignorance; to debar from intellectual light.
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